David Cooperrider, PhD is Professor and Chair of the Department of Organizational Behavior at Case Western Reserve University. He is a fellow of the World Business Academy and is the faculty director for the Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit. David has served as researcher and advisor in the arena of sustainable development to a wide variety of organizations including, for example, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, McCann-Erickson, Nutrimental Foods, Parker Hannifin, World Vision, Cleveland Clinic, American Red Cross, and United Way of America.  Most of the projects are inspired by the Appreciative Inquiry (AI) methodology for which Professor Cooperrider is best known. His founding work in this area is creating a positive revolution in the leadership of change; it is helping companies all over the world discover the power of the strength-based approaches to planning and multi-stakeholder cooperation. Among his highest honors was David’s invitation to design a series of dialogues among 25 of the world's top religious leaders, started by His Holiness the Dalai Lama who said, "If only the world's religious leaders could just know each other, the world will be a better place."  David has published 13 books and authored over 60 articles and chapters.  His volumes include the best-selling Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Revolution in Change Berrett-Kohler (with Diana Whitney); The Organization Dimensions of Global Change (with Jane Dutton); Organizational Courage and Executive Wisdom and Appreciative Leadership and Management (both with Suresh Srivastva).  David is editor of a new academic book series: Advances in Appreciative Inquiry (with Michel Avital) published by Elsevier Science.